Opportunities

Art educators face an increasing need to advance both their individual work and the collective work of the profession. Take advantage of a variety of opportunities designed to support members. Honor those who create a lasting impression on the future through visual arts education by nominating a member for an NAEA AWARD; apply for a National Art Education Foundation GRANT; learn how to get PUBLISHED by NAEA; and/or EXHIBIT new resources and materials that support teaching and learning at the National Convention!

The Professional Learning Through Research Working Group (PLR) of the NAEA Research Commission invites nominations from the NAEA membership for four positions. The group provides opportunities for NAEA members' professional growth in conducting, using and sharing research that improves teaching and learning in the visual arts. Nominate today!

Drive for Design is an FCA-sponsored competition for U.S. high school students in grades 10-12 that costs nothing to enter yet can be the spark that launches some of your students on the road to a creative and well-paying career. This year’s challenge is to create an Ultimate Status Vehicle using any FCA brand – Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep®, Ram or FIAT. Three students will win and the prizes include a summer design course at the prestigious College for Creative Studies.

This scholarship is designed to support visual art educators that are first time attendees of an NAEA National Convention. Four First Time Attendee Scholarships will be awarded, one in each NAEA Region.

The National Gallery of Art announces its first-ever Massive Open Online Course (MOOC): “Teaching Critical Thinking through Art”, now open for enrollment. Designed for educators of all grade levels, subjects, and locations, this free, five-part course prepares teachers to incorporate works of art into classroom practices with Artful Thinking routines—critical thinking strategies developed by Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. This self-paced course begins January 22, 2019 and will remain open indefinitely. Because the course is self-guided, participants can pace themselves through the course as their schedule allows. The course is free; participants can opt to purchase a verified, instructor-signed certificate for $25. For more information, visit www.nga.gov/onlinecourses .

Guidelines and application materials for three National Endowment for the Arts funding categories- Art Works, Challenge America, and Creative Writing Fellowships-have posted on the Arts Endowment‘s website. The National Endowment for the Arts supports projects in any part of the nation’s 50 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories.

Beginning January 1, 2019, teachers and students across the country — with help from the audio experts at NPR — will be able to turn their classrooms into production studios, their assignments into scripts, and their ideas into sound. NPR's Education Team is providing training materials and resources — how to use a smartphone to record audio, how to conduct an interview, audio storytelling tips and tricks — for both teachers and students. To help classrooms get started, NPR will also share suggested, but not required prompts, along with a set of criteria that judges will use to pick winning podcasts.